Excellent Dell desktop £329 delivered

Aidso_2

Has anyone recieved theirs yet and can tell me what the upgrade options are? I was hoping to put in my Asus Gefore 6600GT but someone said there might not be enough room in the slot?
Also id like to install a 2nd SATA drive...do they give an extra SATA cable or a port for it on the motherboard?

Cheers, really is a fantastic deal compared to the £900 i was about to spend on OverClockers minus a monitor.

AngLangS

I ordered mine on Monday, arrived Friday, up and working AOK on Saturday. I went for the XP option.

Dead chuffed, really fast and sooooo cheap!

rogerramjet

Aidso wrote: »

Has anyone recieved theirs yet and can tell me what the upgrade options are? I was hoping to put in my Asus Gefore 6600GT but someone said there might not be enough room in the slot?
Also id like to install a 2nd SATA drive...do they give an extra SATA cable or a port for it on the motherboard?

Cheers, really is a fantastic deal compared to the £900 i was about to spend on OverClockers minus a monitor.

Spare drive bay to slot in another Sata drive, plus power cable to it

Spare power lead ready for addtional CD/DVD (Sata power lead)

free PCIe slot (unless you've ordered with a PCIe card)

2 PCI slots

One Riser (probably modem)

2 additional Sata slots

1 Floppy cable slot + floppy power cable

Looks like an addtional USB riser (block)

kaza

Hi,
Im really confused (which isnt hard as computers go) do I buy this or not? I didnt want to upgrade anything just buy the standard one, does it work with vista or not?

Thanks
karen

rogerramjet

kaza wrote: »

Hi,
Im really confused (which isnt hard as computers go) do I buy this or not? I didnt want to upgrade anything just buy the standard one, does it work with vista or not?

Thanks
karen

System comes with Vista already installed. Cracking priced system if you want to upgrade or use as it is

scoobies

Does this pc have an IDE port?

I want to temporarily connect my old hard disk to copy the data over

Miser_maz

rogerramjet wrote: »

System comes with Vista already installed. Cracking priced system if you want to upgrade or use as it is

Is it worth upgrading to this from an AMD 64 3800? I fancy going for it mainly for the tft monitor, and Vista. i'd add my own graphic card

rogerramjet

Miser_maz wrote: »

Is it worth upgrading to this from an AMD 64 3800? I fancy going for it mainly for the tft monitor, and Vista. i'd add my own graphic card

Would depend what you want to do with it really, gaming and such its worth going for especially if you intend dropping in a graphics card (before I dropped mine in the Vista rating for graphics was 1 with the 256mb card it went up to 4.8 for standard and 4.2 for gaming.

At the moment I have the Dell E520 which I've upped the memory to 4gb and dropped in a 256mb graphics card out of my *older E520 October 2006* system and a 3 and half year old AMD +2800 athlon with 1gb ram, 128mb graphics which I use on a KVM switch (use one monitor, keboard and mouse with 2 computers) at the moment I'm typing this on the AMD which I still tend to use far more than the Dell I bought in October 2006 and the new one.

But then I don't do a lot of gaming and those game I do tend to play on a computer are not that graphic intensive.

Searcher2

scoobies wrote: »

Does this pc have an IDE port?

I want to temporarily connect my old hard disk to copy the data over

The DVD rewriter is on an IDE connector isn't it? In which case there is a spare IDE cable and power connector which you could connect a HD to.... or another DVD rewriter etc.

EDIT : I have a Dimension 5100 not the E520 (which looks the same externally) and have just checked the Dell Forum. It seems everything is SATA so your IDE drive will not go in it.

"They have provided the bare minimum (which, it turns out, isn't enough at all) for connections on the mother board. Everything is SATA, so I can't install my DVD burner than I just bought over the summer."

"Shock Horror !! I found the same. Nothing but SATA connections. I bought the bare bones E520 so I could do my own custom upgrades as finances allowed. Now I have all this IDE junk (hard drives and CD/DVD writers) and SATA is now the new coming standard. I could use a SATA host to device converter ( around $20 ) but went the PCI card route which can support up to 4 devices and cost around $40 which for me made more sense. There are not many SATA DVD burners out there and they are expensive. I'll stick to my IDE optical drives for some years yet until the SATA prices come down. At least I can run both formats now. I would recommend any person considering the purchase of a new system to go to the Dell support site and download the manuals so you know exactly what you are getting."

Better do some research I suggest... or you could always buy an external USB backup drive.

scoobies

Searcher2 wrote: »

The DVD rewriter is on an IDE connector isn't it? In which case there is a spare IDE cable and power connector which you could connect a HD to.... or another DVD rewriter etc.

EDIT : I have a Dimension 5100 not the E520 (which looks the same externally) and have just checked the Dell Forum. It seems everything is SATA so your IDE drive will not go in it.

"They have provided the bare minimum (which, it turns out, isn't enough at all) for connections on the mother board. Everything is SATA, so I can't install my DVD burner than I just bought over the summer."

"Shock Horror !! I found the same. Nothing but SATA connections. I bought the bare bones E520 so I could do my own custom upgrades as finances allowed. Now I have all this IDE junk (hard drives and CD/DVD writers) and SATA is now the new coming standard. I could use a SATA host to device converter ( around $20 ) but went the PCI card route which can support up to 4 devices and cost around $40 which for me made more sense. There are not many SATA DVD burners out there and they are expensive. I'll stick to my IDE optical drives for some years yet until the SATA prices come down. At least I can run both formats now. I would recommend any person considering the purchase of a new system to go to the Dell support site and download the manuals so you know exactly what you are getting."

Better do some research I suggest... or you could always buy an external USB backup drive.

Thanks for this.

The problem is my old PC has died but not the hard disk - so Instead of fixing it I would buy this new PC and plop in my old disk drive to ge tall the data out. However you gave me some options there.

I will either go with the PCI ide card OR buy an external USB ide disk caddy for about £12 or one of these for £6 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/106519